October 23, 2005

  • so being home is great.  i can't stress how much i like being criticized about how fat i am, how much i need to exercise, and how little food i should eat.  i love being told that i'm overweight by taiwan standards (which is damn true but then EVERYONE HERE is overweight by taiwan standards.  sorry if i actually have muscles and am well-nourished and can carry things over 10 lbs.) and how i'm wasting away my youth being fat.


    i also can't stress how much i like being criticized for the major i chose in college and constantly pressured to go pursue a master's degree in "something that other people won't do and that will never leave you jobless".  um, what...do you want me to become a garbage/trash collector????  i mean, honestly, that's one of the few things i can think of that many people would not want to do and that the job will be around forever because there will always be trash that needs to be taken out.  in that case, didn't have to waste the thousands of dollars spent going to college and studying my ass off for.  god.  i seriously can't stand it anymore. 


    #1.  i am NOT going to go pursue a master's degree in something that DOES NOT interest me. 


    #2. i totally do NOT want to go back to school yet.  yah, sure, in the near future, but not NOW! 


    #3.  i am NOT about to pursue a master's degree in a country whose language i can't speak completely fluently in.  really, how the HELL am i suppose to learn something if i can't even understand the damn language it is spoken in???  stop trying to ship me off abroad against my will to get a master's degree in some shit major.  I ONLY WANT TO GO TO LEARN THE LANGUAGE not get another degree!


    #4.  the only profession i can think that is pretty stable or at least will guarantee you a pretty damn good income is being a lawyer, a doctor, or famous.  ok, NOT interested in being a lawyer whatsoever.  doctor?  err...yah, no.  i didn't even get a decent grade in chemistry.  and being famous?  who are we kidding... 


    #5.  it doesn't help that my parents do not know what the hell my major is about and that they keep thinking i should go to a temp agency to find a job.  you do not go to temp agencies for job placement when you friggin do engineering from cal.  YOU DO NOT.


    #6.  given that i reassure them constantly that my major is GOOD, that people actually want IEORs, that we are a great asset to any company and that you can find plenty of jobs with a good salary, it doesn't help that i'm majorly bombing my interviews and not doing so well in the job-hunt category.


    aiya.  i need a drink.  rather, i need a job. 


     

Comments (10)

Comments are closed.

Post a Comment